Donegal town was a plantation borough incorporated by a 1613 charter of 10 James I with a portreeve, 12 burgesses and the commonalty: the last soon vanished. The Gore family controlled the borough absolutely and from time to time sold the seats. Its head, the Earl of Arran (0861), received the £15,000 compensation at the Union.
Telling the story, since 1956, of the people of Ulster
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Ulster Historical Foundation
We are an educational non-profit organisation formed in 1956.
Ulster Historical Foundation
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